Word: bayh
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William Rehnquist of Arizona, a Goldwaterite who is an Assistant Attorney General under John Mitchell, was not so well received. His opponents, led by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, seized upon a memo written by Rehnquist in 1952, when he was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, as evidence that Rehnquist was against civil rights. In the memo, he had argued that the separate but equal doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court in 1896 was "right and should be reaffirmed." When Rehnquist countered that the view expressed was that of Justice Jackson, a civil libertarian, Bayh...
...Senate confirmation, 51-44. At first it looked as though Butz might be beaten. Butz was vulnerable because he seemed more sympathetic to big agribusiness than to the smaller farmers. Still, enough Democrats went along to confirm him-including, oddly, such Midwestern liberals as Indiana's Birch Bayh and Michigan's Philip Hart. Why? Maybe the Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with an Agriculture Secretary unpopular with a farm constituency that could be crucial to the election. But the real rub with the farmers is low corn prices...
...letter, published yesterday in the Congressional Record by Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). maintains that Rehnquist is outside "the central stream of contemporary constitutional thought" on issues of individual liberty and civil rights...
Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, who signed the letter, said yesterday. "I think our letter will have some effect. One purpose of Bayh in releasing the letter was to affect Brooke and Brooke did come out today...
Drinan mentioned to DiCara that he might be interested in a bill that Drinan is co-sponsoring with Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) to lower the age requirement for congressmen from 25 to 22. DiCara...